Now that many of us have the GB leak, I wanted to know what people are doing with the GB bloat. I have autostarts to try and stop the bloat from starting (I'm not sure if it's working on 2.3), but I can't seem to kill things I don't want running. (the stock running apps leaves out things.) Anyone have a suggestion?
chbennett said:
Now that many of us have the GB leak, I wanted to know what people are doing with the GB bloat. I have autostarts to try and stop the bloat from starting (I'm not sure if it's working on 2.3), but I can't seem to kill things I don't want running. (the stock running apps leaves out things.) Anyone have a suggestion?
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You can use root explorer and rename the bloat to .bak or you can use titanium backup and freeze the bloat you don't want, your choice
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hanone said:
You can use root explorer and rename the bloat to .bak or you can use titanium backup and freeze the bloat you don't want, your choice
+1. This is the best practice to start with as deleting certain bloat will cause force closing.
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I use a program called "bloat freezer" does what it says and it's cheaper than titanium.
i used titanium back and froze them ...
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its funny, i froze bloat and everything worked fine....then i uninstalled the same bloat and my dialer started force closing.....
on fission i could uninstall any bloat i wanted and no problems....you do the math.
needless to say, im back on fission.
Is this the best new feature in ICS:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/112413860260589530492/posts/DDTKFhiDS9U?hl=en
Disabling Apps
ICS adds the ability to disable an app outright. Don't like an app that came preinstalled? Disable it! Its resources never run and its launcher icon is gone until you re-enable it. (This doesn't free up any space -- it can't, since pre-installed apps are included in the read-only system storage. But it does put them "out of sight, out of mind.")
Wonders if this will work in TW too, or if Samsung somehow disables this feature as Android is open source?
If only there were some other ICS threads in the Samsung Galaxy II area of the forums where this kind of stuff might already be!
Instead of speculating about whether an as yet unreleased feature works for your phone, why not just root and freeze/uninstall apps you don't want?
You're free to skip reading the thread... ;-)
No, I won't root yet, therefore I hope this feature will survive to our phones. And, what are the chances for that?
Is this feature available in the betas out now?
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Is this feature available in the betas out now?
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Yes it is.
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It is not recommended to disable some of the apps as it might cause your phone to freeze and not updating on the fly.
neo335 said:
It is not recommended to disable some of the apps as it might cause your phone to freeze and not updating on the fly.
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Nice grave dig.
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Hi the title tells it all I got a g2 but want to be WiFi only like without airplane mode on
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Why not just turn on airplane mode then turn on WiFi?
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TimeMonkey said:
Hi the title tells it all I got a g2 but want to be WiFi only like without airplane mode on
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Why on earth would you want that? And as xT4Z1N4TRx said just put on airplane mode and then switch over to wifi.
he wants a wifi tablet/iTouch lol
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he wants a wifi tablet/iTouch lol
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It's a legitimate request I've seen before. I mean, why let your old devices just waste away when your children or family members could totally use them as dirt cheap replacements for iPods and such. You don't want them making accidental emergency calls or circumventing the settings you put in place.
Should be able to completely remove the radio somehow so that the cellular stuff just won't work.
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That's what I need my friend broke his iPod and I told I got this old phone laying around but the u gotta put it into aplane mode each reboot and he ain't tech savvy
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Maybe this is a project for some of the budding devs on xda. In theory, it sounds like a simple change. Simply remove the phone aspects of a rom and repackage. I'm sure it's harder than it sounds in terms of stability and usability though (I'm not a dev) =/
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Maybe this is a project for some of the budding devs on xda. In theory, it sounds like a simple change. Simply remove the phone aspects of a rom and repackage. I'm sure it's harder than it sounds in terms of stability and usability though (I'm not a dev) =/
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Eh, some apps certainly wouldn't work, anything that needs to communicate through telephony and such. But really shouldn't be that difficult.
I'll come back when I'm not too terribly busy with some links about breaking down and customizing ROMs and such. I know that I've found a thread specifically for this kind of thing for another device, but there are a few of them I read up on so it may take a while to locate. Hell, you could just about remove the phone and contacts apps and edit your build.prop and leave an existing ROM intact. I'm no dev or anything though lol so I'll look around.
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Eh, some apps certainly wouldn't work, anything that needs to communicate through telephony and such. But really shouldn't be that difficult.
I'll come back when I'm not too terribly busy with some links about breaking down and customizing ROMs and such. I know that I've found a thread specifically for this kind of thing for another device, but there are a few of them I read up on so it may take a while to locate. Hell, you could just about remove the phone and contacts apps and edit your build.prop and leave an existing ROM intact. I'm no dev or anything though lol so I'll look around.
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TeamDRH over in the gTablet forums have added something similar to this into their ICS ROM for gTablet. Might be a useful place to look.
Ok well.I went and remove like all telephony apk in my Rom and some app don't work like he said
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Not the OG article I had read, but after a bit of Googling I came up with a script that you should be able to set to run at boot which will disable your radio.
You may also be able to dial *#*#INFO#*#* and choose turn off radio, but that will not be persistent across reboots. I would use the script and a third-party launcher that can hide apps so that you'll keep the phone and contacts apps and such for stability, but not have them readily available.
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And a flashable zip! Thank you jellybellys!
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Just to elaborate about that flashable zip, it will actually "permanently" (until you wipe and install another ROM) disable the radio and clean out the apps that you don't want. Also installs some kind of binaries if they're currently absent from the ROM. Great find, I'm glad you asked about this!
exactly, my first thought would be just to use titanium backup and disable/freeze but not remove apps such as dialer or what you dont want/need. not sure if this will work but its worth a try. probably a few treads across xda on this (especially on older model phones) id search in those and see if there is a quick answer short of developing a whole new rom
Yeah I use that zip from jellybean but like android.process forced close alone with like sms app this is all on miui
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Yeah I use that zip from jellybean but like android.process forced close alone with like sms app this is all on miui
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So you used the zip, and once booted those processes were force closing?
I'll try it out on my phone, see if I can't replicate the issue and speak with the dev. Exactly what MIUI build are you on?
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Installed on EliteMod 120316 and upon first boot did get something about the mms process FC'ing. Upon subsequent reboots no more message though, have you tried another reboot? You had two processes FC?
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I have the miui USA one I think I'm not home well won't be till Sunday night
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Some of the experimental roms work like that
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This is a swing in the dark...
Try remove htcril.so or libhtcril.so from system/lib.... That should disable the radio and keep Wi-Fi
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I have the miui USA one I think I'm not home well won't be till Sunday night
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So that's the MIUI.us "Pure English?" I've just downloaded the last available build and will soon flash and then install jellybellys's zip. I'm hoping that will get me the same FC's as you are.
Once you've gotten home after the weekend, try rebooting it a time or two and see if it consistently gives you the FC's.
Also, just curious, but are you using MIUI just because it's the most similar Android overlay to iOS? To make it a bit easier for your friend? Because you could hook him up with some ICS goodness otherwise
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Ok, looking through his updater-script vs. my /system/app/ directory, it looks like MIUI names a couple of apk's differently. I'm currently installing a fresh MIUI so that I can see the directory before moddified by the OG jellybellys zip, then I'll update his zip to reflect those different names and try to run it again. If successful, I'll post the modified file and hopefully we can get your friend a fun little multi-tasking media player
Ok sweet umm can u send me the edit zip
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Had a good look at the flashable zip, very simple. I need to learn to code, I guess this is a good small place to start lol
All I did was unzip his file, change a few things and added a couple extra lines to remove one more app he hadn't worried with. As said above this will disable your radio, install the radiooptions binary if absent, and remove a number of apk's from the /system/app/ directory.
Removed apps:
TelephonyProvider.apk - cellular service
TelocationProvider.apk - emergency location service (I just don't see the need if you're not connecting to cellular networks)
Phone.apk - your phone app - should also get rid of dialer, I'm trying to find out why it doesn't.
Mms.apk - messaging app
All credit to jellybellys @ rootzwiki.com of course, I couldn't have written this myself or anything.
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Again, the phone app will still be on the homescreen and you actually can't remove it. It won't dial anything, and will just cause the acore process to FC if you try. It's looking like the only way to get it really removed is to modify the ROM's zip so that it never installs the app to begin with.
I'm going to restore the apps again, see if Titanium Backup can't do a better job than outright removing the app does.
I'd like to have both TouchWiz and Google Edition ROMs on my phone and to be able to switch between them when desired. At the moment I'm unsure which one I really prefer, but having to reflash and restore all my apps each time is kind of unrealistic. I'm wondering if there's a way to do this.
Thanks!
Set up each ROM then make nan droid backups of each in trwp and restore when you want to switch.
You could see if Boot Manager (play store) works with your device.
That app looks kick ass. No support for us. I looks like the newest samsung it supports is galaxy nexus. It looks like the wifes phone just became my guinea pig
U can ues up to many roms as u like. As as long u have alot of space in your memory chip. And by uesin any rom. Just restore rom to rom. That u wanna uesss
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PwnCloud said:
I'd like to have both TouchWiz and Google Edition ROMs on my phone and to be able to switch between them when desired. At the moment I'm unsure which one I really prefer, but having to reflash and restore all my apps each time is kind of unrealistic. I'm wondering if there's a way to do this.
Thanks!
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https://www.xda-developers.com/android/dual-boot-your-samsung-galaxy-note-2/
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Hello all. I'm on my second G2 now after the first had the phantom touchscreen issues. On the original I ran,a few different roms before realizing -gasp!- that I really liked the original. So I've decided to root, and use titanium backup to remove the stock apps. Which leads me to my question:
Does anyone have a list of which apps are safe to remove? I'm really planning on gutting all the Verizon apps, most of the LG apps, and whatever else crapware it shipped with, but I want to be sure i won't break the os. Thanks!
Ok secondary question Does anyone know how to make the spacebar on the stock keyboard longer? I love it besides the fact I'm constantly hitting the comma button lol. Thanks again!
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Hibernate them all with greenify
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Will that be as effective to free up memory and ram as removing them?
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Here's a list for Verizon. Hasn't been updated in a while by the looks of it, but it should be a good start.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2456974